On Fri, 9 Oct 2026 19:57:48 GMT, Andy Goryachev <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Will do. I think one of the things that we should abandon in the follow-up >> is the Windows-specific behavior. I don't think there's such a thing as >> "standard Windows behavior" for double clicking in a TextArea. But I will >> try to research into this a bit further. > > I sort of agree with the sentiment, though this will probably never fly > because that will introduce a change in the behavior (unless it's clearly a > bug). > > Looking at MS Word over the years, it seems they also slowly converging to a > single behavior across the platforms, so perhaps we need to initiate a > discussion in the mailing list. The fact that double clicking on a word will select the word plus a space character behind that word is (to me) clearly a bug. To be sure I checked some Windows Software on Windows 11 * Notepad * LibreOffice * Our very own synedra View that is using Qt 6 * Microsoft Edge * Firefox Only the browsers in their textarea have this kind of behavior. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/2334#discussion_r4245284080
